Who's been damned, what's been planted?

[imomus]

* New Japanese magazine Planted is about "life with plants on this planet".

* DAMn is a relatively new -- and very interesting -- magazine from Belgium about design, art and architecture. I like the fact that it has a drawn cover, like Relax used to.



* "Bamboo Pop" by 80s idols like Tomoyo Harada and Chisato Moritaka is nice to watch on YouTube.

* In America, both houses are now controlled by the Democrats and Donald Rumsfeld has resigned, thus marking a definitive end to "The Project for a New American Century". Like Hitler's "Thousand Year Reich", it didn't last more than five years or so.

As a gardening magazine might put it, always check the seed packet; your mighty oak tree might be a bonsai.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Talking of false prophets, what do you make of Vladimir Romanov?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

When I was on the cover of the Daily Record, the headline was "Runaways wed in fear". When Romanov is on the cover of the Daily Record the headline is "Jambos chiefvlad splashes out on sub". What does that mean? Is it even in English?

[nicepimmelkarl.livejournal.com]

i don't know. you are the man of daily headlines. i'm a poet.

[(Anonymous)]

There are currently a lot of problems at Tynie re. things making sense/being in English. It's essentially a re-run of the end of the Cold war with Hearts being the besieged utopia where the worker-peasants are increasingly disillusioned and disposed to open revolt. It is a command society where the great dictator is entirely lacking in real-world expertise. Dissidents are banished to the Riccarton salt mines. Can't be long until the walls finally cave in.

As for the sub, Romanov used to be a submarine conscript in the Soviet navy. He's apparently just purchased his old boat (the infamous K-19).